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by tobz 10y ago
This is a DNS outage. If self-hosted, somewhere, you could still be screwed by having Dyn as your DNS provider. If dev-machine-hosted, then uh, your issue tracker is no longer an issue tracker. Your build server is not a build server. All
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Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions(medium.com)
2 points by tobz 10y ago|0 comments
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by tobz 10y ago
Sure, for .NET Core, that sounds accurate. If you take the .NET ecosystem as a whole: the CLR, the tooling, the libraries, etc.. Windows is the happiest case. That's at least how I take his specific point.
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by tobz 10y ago
It seems like he was happy that he was developing on Linux, because Linux is not the happy case for .NET. By doing so, he discovered a bug he might not have otherwise discovered until he was running his project on a Linux environment.
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by tobz 10y ago
Could be a teleconverter in the mix... or a Coolpix P900. :P
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by tobz 10y ago
Wow, that's neat. I'm assuming there are regulations around it, like being a French national or something along those lines? Either way, thanks for pointing this out. That's an incredible benefit.
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by tobz 10y ago
Whoa whoa whoa, tell me more about the thing with France and collecting a percentage of your previous salary. How does all of that work? Who pays for it?
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by tobz 10y ago
Gotcha. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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by tobz 10y ago
Cool. Thanks for the edification.
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by tobz 10y ago
So in this case, headers-only is really just an approach to avoid compiling a separate library? More akin to literally including the source code in your source code, in the eyes on the compiler. All in the same object/library.
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by tobz 10y ago
Can someone explain how this is headers-only? C/C++ are not my forte, but my limited interpretation of a "headers only" thing would be more along the lines of: it's only type definitions and preprocessor macros. It look
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WIRED Endorses Optimism(wired.com)
1 points by tobz 10y ago|1 comments
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by tobz 10y ago
Or the price they pay to take on any housing at all that doesn't put them multiple hours away from their job... :o
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by tobz 10y ago
Your use of "unfairness" sticks out to me, considering you go on to say you're OK with it. Are you actually OK with the disparity or do you think it's unfairness? Can't really be both.
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by tobz 10y ago
The real question: does this provide a faster elasticity component than ELBs? At a previous employer, we punted on ever using ELBs at the edge because our traffic was just too unpredictable. Combining together all of the internet rumors, I&
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by tobz 10y ago
Why would Google themselves care about what developers are reporting back? It's not as if they don't have insight into the types of analytics people care about: Google Analytics is very large.
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by tobz 10y ago
This. Many people are unwilling to cede control of their automobiles even if the statistics support the case of their car being safer when driven autonomously. The "infinite trolley" problem puts this into better perspective, IMO:
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by tobz 10y ago
Interesting that the main algorithm mentioned -- SmartThumbnail -- is supposed to center the picture around detected faces but their example output is clearly not centered.
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by tobz 10y ago
This model isn't internet-connected at all.
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by tobz 10y ago
The idea was that, for the lowest common denominator of "hmm, what was your GPA/degree/whatever?", it's easier to give bits of more-or-less secret information than to do a challenge response on the spot. Everything
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by tobz 10y ago
Ha! I was working on this very concept for a hackathon at work (edX) as a way to think about the future of credentials / authenticity for students taking ad-hoc courses. It's really cool to see others working on this sort of thing
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by tobz 10y ago
If we assume that these systems are in dire need of repair (which many of them are), and that they are unreliable (which they frequently are), then it can be a hard sell to ask riders to pay more. Pay more for what? Improvements years from
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by tobz 10y ago
Consistently reneging on bookings, though, is a strong signal, coupled with reports of discrimination. It's much easier to brush off before hand.. "oh, our plans actually changed, so we can accommodate you. (granted, this can sti
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by tobz 10y ago
This already happens with "dumb" cars, and anecdotally, I've heard this independently from multiple tow truck drivers / roadside emergency responders that they specifically park their vehicles, and stand in specific spot
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by tobz 10y ago
Hmmmmm? Every time I've ever flown, my boarding pass is marked up by a TSA agent before I go through the metal detector/body scanner/X-ray belt area. I think it'd be incredibly suspicious if you left and then back throu
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by tobz 10y ago
Only if you reserve them for three years, which carries an upfront cost of ~$98K.
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by tobz 10y ago
I was going to say: it almost sounds like something weird with IIS. The CLR on Windows was/is top-notch. Now, with Kestrel as an option for ASP.NET 5, you're starting to be able to get closer and closer to the metal, so to speak,
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by tobz 10y ago
Sure, maybe not the worst thing (I don't use Ruby primarily) but just one of the many things where the "expressiveness" of the language itself is can be as much of a boon as it can be a nightmare. Misbehaving classloaders sou
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by tobz 10y ago
So would you say that Ruby's ability to monkeypatch third-party libraries at runtime is not the type of expressiveness that "specially shines" when others have to work with your code? Because I've had to deal with that t
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by tobz 10y ago
I'd love to hear about the specifics for both of the projects. I have a hard time believing that Ruby is faster than C# straight up, and would venture that such speed differences could be easily contributed to something simple like ex

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